Resurrection in the Old Testament
1
Kings 17:17-24
17 Now it came about after these
things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and
his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
18 So she said to Elijah, “What do
I have to do with you, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my
iniquity to remembrance and to put my son to death!”
19 He said to her, “Give me your
son.” Then he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room
where he was living, and laid him on his own bed.
20 He called to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, have You also brought
calamity to the widow with whom I am staying, by causing her son to die?”
21 Then he stretched himself upon
the child three times, and called to the Lord and
said, “O Lord my God, I
pray You, let this child’s life return to him.”
22 The Lord heard the voice of
Elijah, and the life of the child returned to him and he revived.
23 Elijah took the child and
brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother;
and Elijah said, “See, your son is alive.”
24 Then the woman said to Elijah,
“Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.”
2
Kings 4:18-20; 32-37
18 When the child
was grown, the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers.
19 And he said to
his father, “My head, my head!” And his father said to his
servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20 When he had
carried him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon,
and then he died.
32 When Elisha
entered the house, behold the boy was dead, laid on his bed.
33 So he entered
and shut the door behind them both, and he prayed to the Lord.
34 Then he got
up on the bed and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his
mouth, his eyes on his eyes, his hands on his hands, and he bent down on him;
and the flesh of the child became warm.
35 Then he returned
and walked in the house back and forth once, and went up and bent down on
him; and the boy sneezed seven times, then the boy opened his eyes.
36 And he called
Gehazi and said, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her. And when she came to
him, he said, “Pick up your son.”
37 Then she came in
and fell at his feet and bowed down to the ground, and she picked up her
son and left.
Job
19:25-27
25 Yet as for me, I
know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last, He will take His stand on
the earth.
26 Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my
flesh I will see God,
27 Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself, and whom my
eyes will see, and not another. My heart faints within me!
Psalm
71:20-21
20 You who have shown me many troubles and distresses will revive me
again, and will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
21 May You increase my greatness and
turn to comfort me.
22 I will also praise You with a harp, and Your truth, my
God; I will sing praises to You with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
Psalm
16:8-11
8 I have set
the Lord continually before me; because He
is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory
rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely.
10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; You
will not allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.
11 You will make known to me the way of life; in Your
presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures
forever.
Psalm
49:13-15
13 This is
the way of those who are foolish, and of those after them who approve
their words. Selah
14 Like sheep they sink down to Sheol; death
will be their shepherd; and the upright will rule over them in the
morning, and their form shall be for Sheol to consume so that they
have no lofty home.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power
of Sheol, for He will receive me. Selah
Isaiah
26:19-20
19 Your dead will live; their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout
for joy, for your dew is as the dew of the dawn, and the
earth will give birth to the departed spirits.
20 Come, my people, enter your rooms and close your doors behind
you; hide for a little while until indignation runs its course.
Isaiah
53:10-11
10 But the Lord desired to crush Him, causing Him grief;
if He renders Himself as a guilt offering, He will
see His offspring, He will prolong His days,
and the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
11 As a result of the anguish of His soul, He
will see it and be satisfied; by His knowledge the Righteous
One, My Servant, will justify the many, for He will bear their
wrongdoings.
Ezekiel
37:7-10
7 So I
prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a loud noise,
and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
8 And I looked, and
behold, tendons were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there
was no breath in them.
9 Then He said to
me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘The
Lord God says this: “Come from the four winds,
breath, and breathe on these slain, so that they come to life.”’”
10 So I prophesied
as He commanded me, and the breath entered them, and they came to life and
stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
Daniel
12:2-3
2 And many of
those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting
life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.
3 And those
who have insight will shine like the glow of the expanse of
heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars
forever and ever.
Hosea
6:1-2
“Come, let’s
return to the Lord. For He
has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us,
but He will bandage us.
2 He will revive us after two days; He
will raise us up on the third day, That we may live before Him.
Jonah
1:17-2:2, 6-7, 10
17 And the Lord designated a great fish to
swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish for three days and
three nights.
Jonah’s
Prayer
2 Then Jonah prayed to
the Lord his God from
the stomach of the fish,
2 and he said, “I called
out of my distress to the Lord,
and He answered me. I called for help
from the depth of Sheol; You heard my voice.
6 I descended
to the base of the mountains. The
earth with its bars was around me
forever, but You have brought up my life from the pit, Lord my God.
7 While I was fainting away, I remembered
the Lord, and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple.
10 Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited
Jonah up onto the dry land.
